Re: existing cgi site, smartphone access

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The "full" app is a normal web app that isn't "mobile aware".  It was 
never intended to be used as a mobile app, hence my attempts to break 
the app into mobile "pieces" that can be displayed and managed within a 
mobile device.  I can't use the full app on my phone either.

I have only tested it (and remember, jQuery Mobile is a 'Alpha' release) 
on an android phone.  Curious that it doesn't work on the iPhone but I 
did have to revert to using a "standard" jQuery plugin for the calendar 
and some other components that may not be mobile aware.

The selects ARE normally rendered as a drop down.  JQuery Mobile 
converts it into the panel with the select buttons.

I'll put up a PhoneGap app which is much more mature and cross platform 
oriented.  I don't have a Mac to compile for iPhone though.  I'll have 
to stick with the more modern Android platform until I can find a Mac to 
compile to the "older" iPhone platform  ;-)

Thanks for giving it a whirl.  And thanks for the feedback.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 10/26/2010 8:38 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> Peter
>
> I'm afraid the full application doesn't work on the iPhone either. Same issue with the selects
>
> No doubt you'll point out to me that the iPhone browser doesn't support what you are doing?
>
> What's wrong with a simple dropdown list?
>
> Maurice
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Maurice O'Prey
> XMLi5 Ltd
>
> On 26 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Pete Helgren<pete@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > I put together an app using jQuery Mobile I am not completely happy
> > with, yet.  You can find it here:
> >
> > http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP?action=MobileDefault
> >
> > The full access analog (the web site it is an alternative to) can be
> > found here:
> >
> > http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP
> >
> > This is a software application I sell that helps school districts manage
> > their employee attendance (both absences and time worked).
> >
> > You can sign on to either web app using the userid of 10123 and a
> > password of 1234.  (you can try both and see what the "full" web version
> > is like vs just the mobile version).  The mobile app still needs quite a
> > bit of work for maintaining the absence information.  Existing absences
> > show up with a purple highlight around the border but I should probably
> > just retrieve and display that information so that it can be
> > maintained.  Still need to add some functionality.
> >
> > I'll post up a PhoneGap Web App next and then a full mobile app later
> > on.  I spent way too much time with the jQuery stuff assuming it would
> > be a fairly quick app to throw together (always famous last words).  I
> > had some issues with the JSON/Ajax loading of the selects.  There is a
> > "feature" in jQuery Mobile that prevents it from happening easily.
> > However, someone posted a workaround that works quite well so that got
> > me going again.
> >
> > These are live applications.  They are accessing the DB2 for i database
> > on i.  They are Java servlet apps at the back end but could just as
> > easily be RPG since they just deliver JSON through an Ajax call.
> >
> > Pete Helgren
> > Value Added Software, Inc
> > www.asaap.com
> > www.opensource4i.com
> >
> >
> > On 10/24/2010 2:43 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> > > I have an article coming out this coming week that shows how to use
> > > SenchaTouch with OpenRPGUI.  Sencha touch is a fairly full featured
> > > mobile UI framework.  Pete Helgren and Neils Liisberg also posted some
> > > recent findings about jqTouch and jQuery and their mobile efforts.
> > > The latter appear to have a smaller footprint concerning download.
> > >
> > > Aaron Bartell
> > > http://mowyourlawn.com
> > > http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jim Franz<franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> > > > asked to take existing cgi site, make it smartphone friendly.
> > > > Not just a point/click site, but data entry text (order detail includes up to 8 names&   addresses which they can store common ones to select from drop down)
> > > > What works well (or doesn't work well) in small screen apps?
> > > >
> > > > Jim Franz
> > > >
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